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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 922719, member: 23910"]
Not to take away from the mystique or anything, but if you read the full story what you've said there is only [I]kinda[/I] the truth.
 
Yes he beat the likes of Ungar, Reese and Chan for big amounts of money in single sessions.  But I think a big part of the reason his poker action dried up was because he pretty much refused to play anything other than games where he had a big edge.
 
Occasionally that game was stud, but it was usually heads-up razz (a game which he's still supposed to be among the best in the world at - he final tabled the razz event at this year's WSOP, FWIW).  Now most poker players don't like playing razz at the best of times, let alone for nosebleed stakes against someone who's really good at the game.  I suspect he probably would've got more action if he was willing to mix it up and play some other games with people, or if he had've taken his money along to whatever the equivalent of the Big Game at the time was.  But reading the Tom Sexton articles, it sounded like he was pretty stubborn about only playing the couple of games he specialised in.
 
Also, he's supposed to have lost back what he won from Chip Reese and then some in a later session.
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